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 TITLE: A Secret My Heart Can't Keep (feat. Carmen Grant)
BY: Evangeline Wolfe
WRITTEN BY: Evangeline Wolfe & Carmen Grant
LENGTH: 3:18
GENRE: Indie rock, alternative country, indie folk
LABEL: Independent
Released: November 28th, 2013
From the Upcoming Album: Stay Strong, Drift On
Culture Uncut Review"Everybody likes adorable things. Nobody can resist watching a video on the internet of a puppy trying to climb into it's owner's shoe, or a kitten chasing a laser pointer dot to the point of exhaustion. And why? Because it's cute, and it reminds us that not everything in the world is absolutely horrible. For the cynics - which are most people on the internet - it puts things in a different perspective, and people have ultimately come to enjoy different points-of-view over the years of evolution we've endured - or at least the people that have continued to evolve do. So with that in mind, it's no mystery why people would like Evangeline Wolfe's newest song "A Secret My Heart Can't Keep" with Carmen Grant.
First off, let's talk a little bit about our women of the hour - or women of the three minutes, eighteen seconds. Evangeline Wolfe landed herself on the indie rock radar earlier this year with her debut single Sadness is Sweet, which did remarkably well despite the fact that Evangeline Wolfe was not attached to any label at the time - and still isn't. The little redhead from Boston, Massachusetts continued to wow people by opening for Katie Coyle - along with Sara Daniels - during her comeback show - a night that has been forever remembered as the night that Hayden Merjos proposed to Katie Coyle on stage. But after that glorious night, Evangeline Wolfe has mostly kept to herself in the music world. She is hardly ever seen out in clubs or with other friends, and - according to her tweets - seems to prefer staying in with her father, Moses Wolfe, who has at least co-written most of Evangeline Wolfe's songs. The few times that she has spoken to cameras, such as when she attended the Goldies earlier this year, she seemed meek and gentle and mild. Her two singles, which could also be described as "gentle," are very much a display of Evangeline's personality, and we like that in an artist. She might not be as outgoing and in-your-face as some of the Serenity Scotts or Suzies of the world, but that doesn't make her any less of a well-developed musician in our minds.
Carmen Grant, who is also starting to become a big name in the indie rock variety, collaborated with Evangeline Wolfe on this very adorable song - which makes sense because Carmen Grant is also a very adorable woman. Another redhead in the music business, Carmen has become known for her odd personality, and the way that she takes everything she says oh, so seriously. We learned the hard way that when she says something to you that sounds absolutely ridiculous, laughing is the wrong response, because she's never joking. And not laughing at her is a bit hard because Carmen Grant constantly refers to herself in the third person, almost as if the Carmen Grant that we see and hear in a professional sense is not the same Carmen Grant behind closed doors. But no matter how weird and, occasionally, dark Carmen Grant's words can be, she still is absolutely charming - almost a rival to Evangeline Wolfe's charm and delightfulness. Which ultimately is what makes this song so wonderful.
DISCLAIMER: This is a dramatization of what we think happened when writing A Secret My Heart Can't Keep. So Evangeline Wolfe and Carmen Grant got together and Evangeline Wolfe said, "What's a topic that we can write about that will be cute, but will also be taken seriously as a song? Because we're cute people, but we also want to be taken seriously as artists." And then Carmen said something like, "Well, Carmen mostly writes songs about sleeping around... but she does this adorably." And then we assume Evangeline Wolfe blushed or shook her head or something like that, and they decided not to write a song about that. So then after hours of collaborating, Evangeline says, "Let's write a song about being in love with somebody, but you're trying to keep it a secret, but you can't because you're so in love with that person." And then they had a naked pillow fight and made out during When Harry Met Sally. Oh yeah. This was a sleepover/song writing meeting. We forgot to mention that. So after the making out, they wrote the song, added in their sort of innocent sexiness that they both have tons of, and then released A Secret My Heart Can't Keep onto the world.
The song itself is a pretty simple song. It's simply the story of a girl being in love with somebody, and although she can't admit it out loud, the way that she's acting around the person she's in love with makes her feelings towards them pretty obvious. The song was very fitting for Evangeline Wolfe and Carmen Grant to sing together because both of them seem like the type to not be able to express emotions like love or lust very well - especially Evangeline Wolfe, who has admitted that she has never kissed a man before, despite being nearly twenty-five years old. The song has much more of an alternative country feel to it than an indie folk or indie rock feel, which is different for both the women in the song, although both of their music seems to play in the country genre of music. The lyrics repeat themselves for each girl, showing that being unable to admit your feelings to somebody is a universal experience. Also, if anybody ever wanted fuel to start a rumor about Evangeline Wolfe's sexuality, this song could be easily argued as two women singing their love for each other and not being able to tell each other exactly how they feel because of society or whatever you want to say about it. I don't know anybody who really wants to start a rumor about Evangeline Wolfe's sexual identity, but there it is if you want it. (Carmen Grant is already an admitted bisexual, so the rumor wouldn't really effect her).
The song may be a rather simple song - there are no overly dramatic lyrics, no absolutely amazing instrumentals, no super hidden meanings behind the song. It's just a simple, ambrosial song about a not-so-simple concept. And sometimes that's all music needs to be. Simple."
EvangelineCarmenBothHere I go again, smiling too sweet
Can't seem to hold it in every time that we meet
I get this rosy glow, and weak in the knees
I hope you don't know how fast you make my heart beat
I'm a little in love and I'm in a little too deep
Though I'll never say a word, it's a secret my heart can't keep
I'm a little in love and I'm in a little too deep
Though I'll never say a word, it's a secret my heart can't keep
My feet are on the ground whenever you are near
But my head is in the clouds while the rest of me is--
Here I go again, smiling too sweet
It seems that my heart has finally gone
And told on me!
Here I go again, smiling too sweet
Can't seem to hold it in every time that we meet
I get this rosy glow, and weak in the knees
I hope you don't know how fast you make my heart beat
I'm a little in love and I'm in a little too deep
Though I'll never say a word, it's a secret my heart can't keep
I'm a little in love and I'm in a little too deep
Though I'll never say a word, it's a secret my heart can't keep
My feet are on the ground whenever you are near
But my head is in the clouds while the rest of me is--
Here I go again, smiling too sweet
It seems that my heart has finally gone
And told on me!
I'm a little in love and I'm in a little too deep
Though I'll never say a word, it's a secret my heart can't keepSOUNDS LIKE:
Jenny Lewis - Barking at the Moon
Edited by user 30 November 2013 00:14:32(UTC)
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